Rebecca Keefner Tolle at the Arts Coalition of Erie

Published on May 07, 2013

Rebecca Keefner Tolle: Fracking Trails

Arts Coalition of Erie

Friday May 10 - Sunday May 12, 2013

• Painting Demo: Friday, May 10, 6:30pm
• Opening Wine/Cheese Reception and Art Talk: Saturday, May 11, 6-10 pm
• Fri: 10am-8pm; Sat: 10am-9pm; Sun: 10am-5pm

Colorado artist, Rebecca Tolle is opening a 3-day Gallery Show "Fracking Trails" (an extension of her “Trailings Left Behind” series) at the Arts Center of Erie beginning Friday, May 10th. Rebecca will be demonstrating her painting technique at 6:30pm that evening. The Opening Wine and Cheese Reception is Saturday, May 11th from 6 - 9 pm, during this time you can meet the artist and a short art talk will be given.

What might make this show interesting to local Weld and Boulder county residents is that many of the oil paintings focus on local fracking wells. Three years ago, it became too apparent that the landscape was changing. The background of the Rocky Mountains was becoming punctuated by derricks, night-time glaring lights and the pumping of pipe, water and chemicals into the ground. Rebecca likes to paint the derricks in a subtle way which has the viewer reflecting on the process. There is a mystery that begins to develop in the paintings. As she was painting “The Night is Underground”– the spiritual illusion of petroglyphs intertwining with the fracked rock appeared. It is this attachment and love of the land the artist has that makes the paintings particularly riveting.

Rebecca started the series of oil paintings “Trailing’s Left Behind “as a focus on things that mankind has left behind. She became interested in what was in the large multi-colored containers at the drilling sites and after learning about the process wanted to find a way to call the public’s attention to the drilling practices and the shifting view of the land. Painting the active well sites also led to a fascination with the activity at the landfill next to some of the oil derricks. With the thousands of seagulls, huge earth-moving equipment and windblown trash contrasted against the natural beauty of the Colorado sky and Longs Peak, these paintings fit into the "Fracking Trails" series. This may be the only opportunity to see the series shown as an intact collection.

Arts Center of Erie
625 Pierce St
Erie, CO 80516

 

Stories, Memories and Histories at the C4FAP

Published on April 03, 2013

Stories, Memories and Histories

Center for Fine Art Photography

March 29 - May 25, 2013

• Opening Reception: Friday April 5, 2013 from 6 - 9pm

(from the press release)

Personal and communal memories are preserved through stories. The images in this exhibition explore these memories through various visual presentations. From Tami Bone’s dreamlike images that explore memories of childhood to K.K. DePaul’s constructions that explore a family history that includes mental illness and murder. Included in the exhibition are 38 photographers from eight countries. “Looking at photographs you can learn a lot about the spirit of a time, about the past and the future, but also about where we are standing now”, states juror Regina Anzenberger of the Anzenberger agency.

Stories, Memories and Histories will be on display in the Center's Online Gallery at c4fap.org, and in the Main Gallery at 400 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado from March 29 – May 25, 2013. The artists' and public reception will take place March April 5, 2013; from 6 - 9p.m. Join the Center and artists from across the globe, for an evening of art, inspiration, and community. This exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the City of Fort Collins Fort Fund Grant and a Colorado Creates Grant.

Since 2004, The Center for Fine Art Photography has been a preeminent supporter of photography. As a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization, the Center is supported globally with donations, grants, and memberships. Based in Fort Collins, CO, the Center for Fine Art Photography offers three public galleries, classes, and online exhibitions that give photographers and photography enthusiasts from all over the world an opportunity to engage with the Center and it’s community. For more information about the Center, including information on workshops, membership and exhibitions, please visit the website at http://c4fap.org or call 970-224-1010.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.224.1010
Mon - Fri: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 3pm
Sunday: Closed
http://www.c4fap.org

 

Linda Gleitz: Capistrano IV at the Longmont Museum

Published on March 01, 2013

Linda Gleitz: Capistrano IV

Longmont Museum (Portal Gallery)

March 2 - May 8, 2013

(from the press release)

Artist Linda Gleitz has completed and installation of 137 ceramic birds performing a “murmuration” at the Longmont Museum. This site specific work, Capistrano IV, will be on view now through May 8 in the Portal Gallery at the Museum.

Gleitz’s installation is the latest in a series of her work inspired by the famous swallows of San Juan Capistrano. For this complex large-scale work, Gleitz sculpted and fired each individual bird and installed them frieze-like to the wall, capturing the upward turn of two flocks meeting at the top. This is the first ceramic installation in the Portal Gallery.

Linda’s Artist Statement: If the current science is correct, and this universe started with a big bang, all beings and all matter can trace their atomic structure back to stardust. This truly makes us “one” with the universe and connected to everything we see and experience. We share this planet with many other beings and some of them are social like us. I keep thinking we can all learn from each other. This installation is an attempt to do that and an attempt to honor our feathered friends who seem to know something about how to work together. We all know about the power of many. I want to salute the beauty and grace of each individual birdie and the beauty, power and strength of many working together. What I have noticed in other species is that they mostly seem to work together for the common good. I am trying to capture that instant when an entire flock of birds turns together…sometimes called a murmuration.

This is the fourth incarnation of my Capistrano series. I was captivated as a child by the stories of the swallows of San Juan Capistrano who migrate far and wide and return to those same cliffs every year. I do believe there are some powerful forces at work on this marvelous planet Earth.

Museum Director Wes Jessup commented “We encourage artists to engage the space of the Portal Gallery in different ways, although Linda is better known for her paintings we challenged her to consider the size and dimensions of the gallery. She surprised us with the idea for a ceramic flock of birds, which captures the beauty and fluidity of their movement.”

The Longmont Museum
400 Quail Road
Longmont, CO 80501
303.651.837
http://www.longmontmuseum.org

 

Portraits 2013 and Susan A Barnett at the C4FAP

Published on February 27, 2013

Portraits 2013 (Main Gallery)

Susan A Barnett’s Not In Your Face (North Gallery)

The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins)

February 15 – March 23, 2013

• Juror: Charles Guice
• Public and artist reception: Friday March 1, 2013 from 6-9
• North Gallery on display until March 30th
  

(from the press release)

As with the genre of painting on which it is based, the photographic portrait is a visual representation of its subject; an impression or evocation of an individual and, at times, even of an animal, place or thing, the portrait is an object created as a remembrance. But the portrait can be also best described as a creative collaboration between artist and sitter. Many of the artists featured in Portraits 2013, the current survey at the Center for Fine Art Photography, have sought to challenge the framework and conventions of the traditional portrait, while others have committed to skillfully embracing them.

Juror Charles Guice selected the images for the Portraits 2013 exhibition. Charles is the director of Charles Guice Contemporary. Recognized for developing new talent as well as for advancing more established artists, he has been instrumental in the careers of several of today’s leading contemporary artists, including Erika Diettes, Birthe Piontek, Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Guice has placed works in prominent private and public collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The High Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography and The Williams College Museum of Art.

Portraits 2013 will be on display in the Center's online gallery at c4fap.org, and at the Main Gallery at 400 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado from February 15 – March 23, 2013. The artists' and public reception will take place March 1, 2013, from 6 - 9p.m. Join The Center and artists from across the globe, for an evening of art, inspiration, and community.

This exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of the City of Fort Collins Fort Fund Grant.

Since 2004, The Center for Fine Art Photography has been a preeminent supporter of photography. As a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization, The Center is supported globally with donations, grants, and memberships. Based in Fort Collins, CO, The Center for Fine Art Photography has three galleries, classrooms, a digital lab and an online gallery that gives photographers and photography enthusiasts from all over the world an opportunity to engage with The Center.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.224.1010
Mon - Fri: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 3pm
Sunday: Closed
http://www.c4fap.org

 

A Family Affair and Carol Dass at the CS FAC

Published on February 19, 2013

A Family Affair: Selections from the Progressive Art Collection

Carol S. Dass: Mother

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

February 23 - May 19, 2013

• Members Only Preview: Friday February 22 from 5-7pm featuring appetizers, cash bar, and a special panel discussion with artist Carol Dass, Instructor of Photography at UCCS, Kristin Rogers and H. Scott Westover, the Progressive curators of A Family Affair, and Joy Armstrong, FAC Assistant Curator

(from the press release)

A Family Affair features an outstanding selection of works from the Progressive Corporation's contemporary art collection, encompassing media from painting and sculpture to digital photography and video, all embracing the theme of family.

The diversity of objects eloquently reflects the countless associations with the idea of family and what it means to each of us. While some works address the trauma of dysfunctional relationships, illness, or regret, such as TR Ericsson’s Everyday is Like Sunday, others offer ruminations on childhood memories, as in Emilia Faro’s works.

Artists Margot Quan Knight, Mitch Epstein, and Stuart O’Sullivan deal with the passage of time and its profound impact on our relationships with our parents, our memories, and ourselves. Alix Smith’s elegant States of Union photographs refer to the conventional representations of families by artists such as Norman Rockwell while addressing the present controversy surrounding same-sex couples.

“The viewer will undoubtedly relate on a personal level to some works and be challenged by others, but ultimately come to a place of deeper understanding after approaching unfamiliar concepts with an open mind.” said FAC Assistant Curator Joy Armstrong.

The Fine Arts Center is pleased to partner with the Progressive Corporation for this exhibition. In 1974, Progressive started collecting contemporary art as a way to advance their unique workplace culture. Today, their collection includes more than 7,800 artworks displayed in Progressive offices countrywide. For over 30 years, art at Progressive has continued to provoke and foster passionate discussion among their employees. The collection seeks out emerging as well as internationally established artists in a variety of media with the goal of promoting diversity, inspiring creativity, challenging viewpoints, and encouraging discourse in the workplace and beyond.



Carol S. Dass: Mother

"Typed out in bold that word seems foreign to me. Partly because I have never been or will ever be a mother. As I move through this life, thinking about aging and one’s place in the world a lot of time has recently been spent with my mother. She has been alone for several years, and I have been seeing her with new eyes while listening to her history. It’s funny how growing up we have a tendency to view our mothers as just that... Mother. Growing up I was unable to see beyond that role of the woman who carried me in her womb, raised me the best that she could, and will in many ways continue to view me as a child regardless of my age. My mother went to work when I was very young to support us, attended night school while working and also taking care of nearby relatives. She was not at home to greet me with a plate of warm cookies, asking after my day when I came home from school. I remember when I was an adult coming into my own finally seeing my mother as a person; a unique individual who had many adventures and stories to tell. The reasons behind perceived and real dysfunction became easier to understand. These images are a small documentation of my Mother, a small reflection of what has occurred and what is ahead." —Carol S. Dass  

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org

 

Ernst Neizvestny at the Fort Collins Museum of Art

Published on February 19, 2013

Only Persist: Works by Ernst Neizvestny From the Collection of Wayne F. Yakes, M.D.

Fort Collins Museum of Art

February 20 – March 15, 2013

Fort Collins Museum of Art
201 S. College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.482.2787
Monday & Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday - Friday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
http://www.ftcma.org

 

Mark Lunning and Abbie Powers at Artworks Loveland

Published on December 14, 2012

Mark Lunning and Abbie R. Powers: Passages

Artworks Loveland

December 14, 2012 - January 25, 2013

• Gallery Reception: Friday January 11th from  6-9 pm

(from the press release)

Mark Lunning is a Master Printmaker from Denver, CO. He has been an artist for 4 decades and has been at the forefront not just of printmaking, but of the promotion of fine art prints. Owner of Open Press Gallery in Denver, his printmaking facility has allowed him to work with many regionally well known artists. Mark also teaches at the Art Students League of Denver. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Colorado and offers print-making classes for amateurs on up to professionals. Mark has received the AFKEY Award from the Denver Art Museum for his significant contributions to contemporary art in the state of Colorado.

Abbie Powers is a sculptor in love with materials. She transforms collections of second-hand and found items Into installations involving multiples, performance, video, photographs, lighting and sound. Using materials from our everyday experience, she questions what we hold important in our lives. Abbie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in studio arts as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture. She is the fiber artist behind camelhairandhoney, a line of heirloom quality wearable fiber art pieces.

Artworks Loveland
310 Railroad Avenue
PO Box 239
Loveland, Colorado 80539
970.663.5555
http://artworksloveland.org

 

Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop at the CS FAC

Published on October 24, 2012

Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

October 27, 2012 - January 20, 2013

• Member's Preview: Friday October 26th from 5-7pm

(from the press release)

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop, a career retrospective one of the most highly regarded and influential artists and art teachers in the Rocky Mountain region over the past four decades. The exhibition opens Oct. 27 and runs through Jan. 20. There is an exclusive preview for Fine Arts Center members on Oct. 26 from 5-7 p.m., featuring a special panel discussion with the artist and FAC Museum Director on Blake Milteer at 5:30 p.m.

Tunson was born in 1947 in Denver; he lives and works in Manitou Springs. He taught art at Palmer High School from 1971-2000, instructing and influencing over 5,000 students during his tenure.

This will be Tunson’s first major survey of his life’s work to-date addressing concepts such as cultural identity, American social history, pop culture, art history, and the beauty of pure abstraction. The exhibition centers upon the bold installations Hearts and Minds, Delta Queen, Haitian Dream Boats, and Pop-up Rodeo and is organized to reflect the confluence of Tunson’s themes and media over four decades. An accompanying catalogue will include an essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.

“Tunson is a master of visual satire, but, from the moment we met, I also sensed his gift of cool deliberation.” – Poet Yusef Komunyakaa

The Pop in the title refers both the artist’s father (Curtis Oscar David) and the artist’s affection for Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. The exhibition reflects the scope of Tunson’s career and work. He has achieved a rich and diverse body of work via media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking – often combining the language of these various media in single works.

Other works in the exhibition relate to the bold installations, yet speak of their own aesthetic and conceptual concerns. Included are the Endangered series’ beautifully-rendered portraits of African-American youth, the Nubian series’ abstract dialogue with the crossroads of Africa, and the Synchro-Mesh series’ reflection of Tunson’s travels in the American south. Tunson’s Remix and Universal Bunnies series extend images and themes the artist has addressed since the 1970s with an equally critical and reverent eye.

Tunson says that from one direction he sees “the terror of chaos, man’s inhumanity to man, mortality, and the unknown. From another direction, the human condition seems like a magnificent, orderly evolution of extraordinary beauty” and he states that the totality of his work reflects his “quest to comprehend and express these forces and their interconnectedness.”

"You will experience all the beauty, intensity, humor, and toughness in Tunson's work." — Blake Milteer, FAC Museum Director

“By the time Son of Pop opens, I'll have been working on it with Floyd for five years. The exhibition will benefit from a lot of time sitting in front of the art, listening to Floyd's thoughts on the work and its origins, and exchanging ideas with Floyd and his associate Wylene Carol. One of the most wonderful experiences has been to see the new art Floyd has made in the past several years. This recent work pulls threads from throughout Floyd's art over the decades in amazing visual and conceptual ways. It has been an exciting curatorial experience for me to transform my ideas, selections, and orchestration of the exhibition based on inclusion of the new work.

“Floyd looks to the challenge and provocation of some tough subjects but, perhaps necessarily, interweaves them with craftsmanship and expression of astounding beauty. Our goal has been to curate an exhibition that profoundly celebrates that dynamic relationship.” — Blake Milteer, FAC Museum Director  

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org

 

Green at the Center for Fine Art Photography

Published on October 24, 2012

Green

Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins)

October 26 – November 24, 2012

• Public Reception: Friday November 2, 2012 from 6-9pm
• Juror: Corinne Tapia, the Director at Sous Les Etoiles in New York

(from the press release)

The vast meaning and representation of the color green allows us to appreciate the power of photography. Green is the color of a playful childhood and an impatient adolescence; green brings certain nostalgia for nature, a world of fantasy and venture- a world in motion. The images in the Green exhibition comprise a mix of the unusual and unexpected- an allegory of color- that tells the story of the world around us.

Images for the Green exhibition were selected by juror Corinne Tapia, the Director at Sous Les Etoiles in New York. Tapia also collaborates in portfolio reviews with Photolucida (Portland), ICP (New York), and Les Rencontres d’Arles (France). She has initiated artist exchange programs with international photo galleries, and recently shifted focus to contemporary Japanese photography with several thematic exhibitions of Japanese photographers in partnership with Gallery 21 in Tokyo. A member of the TOKYO- GA commissioner’s board in Japan, Ms. Tapia spearheads the selection committee and programming schedule for the 2013 Tokyo Museum of Photography exhibition’s U.S. delegation.

Green will be on display in the Center's online and physical galleries from October 26 – November 24, 2012. The artists' and public reception will take place November 2, 2012 from 6 - 9p.m. Join The Center, Corinne Tapia of Sous Les Etoiles, and artists from across the nation, for a evening of art, inspiration, and creativity.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.224.1010
Mon - Fri: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 3pm
Sunday: Closed
http://www.c4fap.org

 

Holly Parker Dearborn at Spotlight

Published on October 03, 2012

Holly Parker Dearborn: Momentum, A Solo Exhibition Of 17 NEW Oil Paintings

Spotlight Gallery (Co. Springs)

October 5 - December 31, 2012

• Opening Reception: Friday October 5, 5-8pm

 
(from the press release)

The paintings included here are painted with traditional oils and range in scale from 12”x12” up to 48”x48”. They are a part of my ongoing Layer Labyrinth series which is a product of numerous inspirations fused together through the evolution of time. What began as a love affair with the edges of paintings became a means to describe my relationship with space.

http://www.parkerdearborn.com

Spotlight Gallery at Soiree Events and Celebrations
1003 South Tejon St.
Colorado Spring, CO 80905
719.633.8313
Hours: Mon. - Fri., 12–5pm; Also, During Public Events and By Appointment
http://www.coloradospringsvenue.com

 

Sean O'Meallie: Things That Burn at The Modbo

Published on September 24, 2012

Sean O'Meallie: Things That Burn

The Modbo (Colorado Springs)

September 7 - 28, 2012

From Sean:

Things That Burn is an acknowledgment that these hand-shaped wood sculptures can combust – combustion being on the mind of late – but it’s also a double entendre.

I’ve worked in wood for years though, primarily because of its physical qualities. It’s also biodegradable, renewable, and practical – you can burn it for protection, to see at night, cook with and keep warm. I happily accept wood’s cultural baggage, but I think I’d also be happy sculpting cheese for lots of the same reasons.

There are a number of ideas at play in my work which reveal a range of considerations in my explorations of perception, and discovery. There may be some social commentary – usually about identity politics and human silliness – but there is often a lot of delight and honesty in the result. The art has an idea that guides it, sometimes wholly restrained by it, sometimes not, but it reflects my relationship with time and circumstance. People say the work makes them smile and think, and delights them, too.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much of a “fair value” art market in Colorado Springs for what I do, but I still support and participate in the frothy mix of art and culture here. Variation is good. Contributing is also important. The art I do display in the area is usually at the request of wonderful, hopeful, hardworking people and organizations. There are many worthwhile returns in doing so. I love what Lauren and Brett are building here and I’m honored to show in their space.

“What thrills and disturbs me about Sean O’Meallie’s sculptures is their ineluctable play between surface and meaning; invitation and repulsion; direct statement and pun; light pop fancy and ponderous foreboding. With surfaces as smooth as porcelain or plastic, one can’t even be certain these sculptures are made of wood. The Jolly Green Giant’s baby’s arm raises a fuck you finger atop an architecturally rendered box in the style and palette of Michael Graves. “Because,” it seems to say before you’ve even had time to ask Why?” – Noel Black

Modbo/S.P.Q.R
17b and 17c East Bijou
Colorado Springs, CO, 80903
http://themodbo.wordpress.com
http://www.facebook.com/themodbo

 

13th Annual Longmont Studio Tour "Preview Exhibit" at Muse

Published on September 06, 2012

13th Annual Longmont Studio Tour "Preview Exhibit"

Muse Gallery (Longmont, CO)

September 7 - 30, 2012

• Opening Reception: Friday, September 7 from 6 – 9pm
• Studio Tour takes place Sat/Sun September 29/30 from 11am - 5pm
  

The Preview Exhibition for the 13th Annual Longmont Studio Tour opens at the Muse Gallery with a Reception on September 7 from 6 -9 pm. View art by the 30 participating artists at this “taster” for the Tour. Meet the Artists, view and purchase their art, and plan your tour of their Studios located throughout the Longmont area and Niwot. Exhibit continues through Sunday, September 30.

Muse Gallery
356 Main St.
Longmont, CO 80501
303.678.7869
http://www.LongmontStudioTour.org

 

Illusion at the Center for Fine Art Photography

Published on August 02, 2012

Illusion

Center for Fine Art Photography

August 3 - September 1, 2012

• Juror: Terry Etherton
• Opening reception: Friday August 3 from 6 - 9pm

(from the press release)

Illusion: A false idea or belief, a deceptive appearance or impression, something that betrays by producing misleading impressions of reality. The Center’s current exhibition is a visual representation of the ways that our minds and senses play tricks on us. Whether it is oranges that appear as glowing lanterns or a sheet blowing in the wind that integrates itself into the natural world around it, Illusion is a reminder that not everything is as we perceive it to be.

Illusion is a juried exhibition that was selected by Terry Etherton of Etherton Gallery. Founded in 1981, Etherton Gallery specializes in 19th, 20th Century and Contemporary Fine Art Photography. As one of the Southwest's premier galleries, its inventory incorporates museum quality works including turn-of-the- century western American ethnographic and landscape photographs. Mixing traditional black and white contemporary imagery with vintage classical and digital technologies, the history of photography is always evident in the gallery's holdings.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.224.1010
Mon - Fri: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 3pm
Sunday: Closed
http://www.c4fap.org

 

Amelie von Wulffen and Lucio Fontana at the Aspen Art Museum

Published on July 25, 2012

Amelie von Wulffen and Lucio Fontana

Aspen Art Museum

July 27 - October 7, 2012

• Public reception with Amelie von Wulffen: Thursday, July 26 at 6pm

(from the press release)

2012 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence Amelie von Wulffen’s first U.S. Museum solo exhibition includes 16 oil paintings—9 created during her time as the AAM 2012 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence. Blending abstraction and figuration, romanticism and psychedelia, von Wulffen’s paintings and drawings fuse the imaginary and the everyday, conjuring a world that is at once both winsome and poignant.

One of the 20th century’s most innovative artists, Lucio Fontana (Argentine-Italian, 1899-1968) continually challenged the boundaries of art-making and the role of the artist. Although best known for his Concetti Spaziale, the spatial environments and slashed canvases he created in the 1950s and ‘60s, Fontana produced a body of baroque ceramic work in which he engaged both painting and sculpture in innovative and productive new ways. Comprising a curatorial selection from the early 1930s through the ‘60s, Lucio Fontana: Ceramics will be the first museum exhibition dedicated to this aspect of the artist’s groundbreaking artistic production.

Exhibition-related Programming: Lucio Fontana: Ceramics Panel Discussion on Saturday, August 4, 4 pm Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 5263 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass, CO With artists Kathy Butterly, Charles Long, Katy Schimert and AAM CEO and Director, Chief Curator, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson held in collaboration with Anderson Ranch and introduced by Anderson Ranch Executive Director Barbara Bloemink.

Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street
Aspen, CO 81611
970.925.8050
http://aspenartmuseum.org

 

Jennifer Joseph and Rex Ray at Turner Carroll Gallery

Published on July 25, 2012

Color Rx

Turner Carroll Gallery

July 27 - August 18, 2012

• Opening Reception: Friday July 27 from 5-7pm

Turner Carroll Gallery
725 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.986.9800
http://turnercarrollgallery.com

 

James Turrell and Scott Johnson at the CS FAC

Published on July 11, 2012

James Turrell: Trace Elements

Scott Johnson: Places Apart

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center

July 14 - September 30, 2012

• Members Only Preview: Friday July 13 from 5-7pm featuring a presentation by Scott Johnson and FAC Museum Director Blake Milteer

(from the press release)

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents James Turrell’s installation piece, Trace Elements: Light Into Space, in conjunction with an exhibition, Places Apart, by Colorado College professor and artist, Scott Johnson.

“Turrell is one of the most compelling installation artists at work today,” writes the UK’s The Independent. “Visual art usually invades the head; Turrell hopes to invade the entire body.”

Turrell is an American artist whose work involves exploration of light and space. A Turrell installation provides an experience that is different for each viewer, and can be moving and thought-provoking.

“We consider ourselves fortunate to be able to bring an artist of James Turrell’s stature to Colorado Springs, a true giant in contemporary art,” said Sam Gappmayer, FAC President and CEO. “This exhibition, curated by our Museum Director Blake Milteer, comes to the FAC on the heels of our critically-acclaimed, award-winning 2010 exhibition, William Kentridge: The World is Process. And we are excited to pair Turrell with an innovative, local conceptual artist in Scott Johnson.”

The piece, Trace Elements, evokes a number of reactions. Westword wrote, “Trace Elements (is) a light sculpture exuding such visual magnetism that viewers may believe they’ve died and gone to heaven.”

For this installation, the Fine Arts Center’s large second-floor El Pomar Gallery will undergo a massive transformation. A large-scale viewing room is being built within the gallery to house Trace Elements.

The artist wants each patron to encounter the piece with no preconceptions, so the Fine Arts Center cannot describe specifics about the work or the experience.

Turns out the piece is “almost impossible to describe” anyways, according to the UK’s The Independent.

However, the Los Angeles Times reports the installation “exerted a profound effect on viewers.” The Rocky Mountain News called the piece, “mesmerizing.” Westword called Trace Elements “otherworldly” and “a thoroughly unreal environment.”

Trace Elements is on loan to the FAC from the Denver Art Museum. Two James Turrell holograms will also be on display on loan from Aspen’s Baldwin Gallery.

Turrell has a B.A. in psychology from Pomona College. He attended graduate art classes at the University of California, Irvine from 1965-1966 and received an M.A. from Claremont Graduate School in 1973. The artist currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

In 1984 Turrell was awarded the prestigious 'genius' award - the Katherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France in 1991; the Friedrich Prize, Germany in 1992; an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London in 2003; and membership of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Tate Modern in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Guggenheim in New York and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

A Turrell retrospective will be on view in 2013 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museum of Fine Art in Houston. The artist’s work will also be on display at this summer’s Venice Biennale and in his first solo exhibition in Russia.



Scott Johnson: Places Apart

Scott Johnson, a local contemporary artist and Professor of Studio Art at Colorado College, employs various media to draw attention to the ways we perceive the presence of light as it relates to the sky, earth, and architectural space. Like James Turrell, Johnson’s investigations often find their most engaging form when the beauty of exterior light is recalled in a gallery atmosphere, bringing the outside in. While Turrell focuses on experiences related to the luminosity and infinity of the sky, Johnson looks to the role of light as it defines the materiality of earth. Both artists are concerned with the ways that viewers’ experience with perception unfolds over a period of time. Johnson believes that elemental experiences can not only be represented by art, but stimulated by art.

This exhibition will include works of installation art, sculptural objects, and two-dimensional pieces that inspire experiences in which viewers slow down and immerse themselves in the elemental qualities of light.

"These two artists create extraordinary experiences that engage art's ability to truly resonate in our lives long after we've left the museum," said Milteer.

Johnson earned his BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His work as an artist has been informed by such as experiences as herding cows on the Navajo Reservation, traveling upon the Silk Road and living in Venice, Italy.

Johnson’s exhibition, The Look of Nowhere, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art was awarded “Best Conceptual Show” by Westword in 2009.

The James Turrell / Scott Johnson exhibitions are supported by El Pomar Foundation, Nancy B. Tieken, Anschutz Foundation, Colorado Springs Independent, KKTV and the members of the Fine Arts Center.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.634.5583
http://www.csfineartscenter.org

 

Ajean Lee Ryan at the Fort Collins Museum of Art

Published on July 11, 2012

Ajean Lee Ryan

Fort Collins Museum of Art

July 13 - August 29, 2012

• Opening reception: Thursday, July 12 from 5-7pm with an Artist Talk at 6pm
• Artist information at http://www.ajeanleeryan.com
  

(from the press release)

Ajean Lee Ryan, visual artist and Assistant Professor of Drawing at Colorado State University, will present a series of new large-scale drawings, smaller collage works and ornate sculptures in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Fort Collins Museum of Art.

Ryan’s recent work involves the investigation of rituals, ceremonies and spectacles. Her initial research began with society’s fascination with royalty and notions of living our lives through the lives of others’. The pomp and circumstance usually related to religiously-ordained royal ceremonies is of interest to her specifically for its absurdity and profundity. In opposition to the austere and minimal, Ryan embraces all things lavish and profuse with ornamentation. This is in direct opposition to the kinds of excesses deemed tasteful in the realm of contemporary fine arts today.

Ajean Lee Ryan received her B.A. in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting from U.C.L.A. In 2000, she obtained her M.F.A. in Drawing at U.C. Berkeley. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Last year she participated in an internationally juried exhibition of nine artists at the AIR Gallery in Brooklyn, New York and was selected as a participant in the Drawing Discourse Biennial at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. Ajean Lee Ryan has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including most recently the Colorado State University Summer Fellowship Award. She is an Assistant Professor of Drawing at Colorado State University and currently lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The Museum is open Wednesday-Friday from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Saturday & Sunday from 12:00pm - 5:00pm and closed on Monday and Tuesday. Admission is $6 adults, $5 senior (65 or older) and students with valid id, $3 youth (6-17) and Children 6 and under are free. FCMOA members always get in FREE!

Fort Collins Museum of Art
201 S. College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-482-2787
Monday & Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday - Friday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
http://www.ftcma.org

 

Kevin Van Aelst at the Center for Fine Art Photography

Published on July 02, 2012

Kevin Van Aelst: Elsewhere

Center for Fine Art Photography (North Gallery)

July 6 – August 25, 2012

• Artist’s reception with Kevin Van Aelst on Friday, July 6, beginning at 6pm

(from the press release)

Kevin Van Aelst’s, “artwork is an attempt to reconcile [his] physical surroundings with the fears, fascinations, curiosities, and daydreams occupying [his] mind.” Elsewhere, the newest solo exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography, is a whimsical exhibition that invites the viewer to experience everyday objects in a new light. “This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas, states Van Aelst.

Kevin Van Aelst was born in Elmira New York and grew up in central Pennsylvania. He has received a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University and an M.F.A. in photography from the University of Hartford. He has taught photography courses at the Hartford Art School, Middlesex Community College, Quinnipiac University, and currently at the ACES/Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a 2008 recipient of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism fellowship grant. He has been commissioned to create artwork for such publications as Time, Wired, GQ, Business Week, Fast Company, and Scientific American. His photo illustrations appeared weekly as part of The Medium in the New York Times Magazine from 2007 to 2010.

The Center is thrilled to present Elsewhere, a solo exhibition by Kevin Van Aelst. Elsewhere is on exhibition in the Center for Fine Art Photography’s North Gallery from July 6 – August 25, 2012. Please join us for the artist’s reception with Kevin Van Aelst on Friday, July 6, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.224.1010
Mon - Fri: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 3pm
Sunday: Closed
http://www.c4fap.org

 

Simply at the Center for Fine Art Photography

Published on June 23, 2012

Simply

The Center for Fine Art Photography

June 29 – July 28, 2012

• Public reception: Friday July 6th from 6-9pm
• Juror: Louise Clements, Artistic Director of QUAD, Centre for Contemporary Art & Film

(from the press release)

“The photographers selected for Simply all have something in common, their capacity to translate what they encounter and to transform the things that remain unnoticed, they see the extra in the ordinary,” writes Louise Clements in her juror’s statement for the upcoming Simply exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography. She goes on to say, “The works also go further to attempt to represent the un- photographable yet omnipresent abstract phenomena such as guilt and satellite transmissions, all become fascinating in their isolation.” Featuring work from David Welch (Juror’s Selection), Yonging Qian (Director’s Selection), and Ji Hyun Kwon (Juror’s & Director’s Honorable Mention), Simply allows the viewer to look deeper within each image.

Louise Clements is the Artistic Director of QUAD, centre for contemporary art & film since 2002. As curator since 1998 Louise has initiated/curated many commissions and exhibitions of international contemporary art. She is also the Co-Founder and Artistic Director/Curator of FORMAT International Photography Festival Derby UK. FORMAT is one of the UKs leading photography festivals, biennial programme in March, celebrates the wealth of practice in international photography.

The Center for Fine Art Photography
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970.224.1010
Mon - Fri: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 3pm
Sunday: Closed
http://www.c4fap.org

 

Tony Ortega: Mestizo Hybridity at the Firehouse Art Center

Published on June 23, 2012

Tony Ortega: Mestizo Hybridity

Firehouse Art Center(Longmont)

June 29 - August 13, 2012

• Opening reception: Friday June 29th, 6-9pm

(from the website)

Tony’s vivid and colorful work makes a fascinating series of observations on the reality of the changing demographics of our Latino population – here in Longmont and across the United States. Tony’s prints incorporate a wonderful juxtaposition of images using magical realism to confront important issues facing our Latino population. Please join us for this exciting exhibition. Free & open to the public.

Firehouse Art Center‎
667 4th Avenue
Longmont, CO 80501
(303) 651-2787
http://firehouseart.org‎

 

currents 2012: the santa fe international new media festival

Published on June 16, 2012

currents 2012: the santa fe international new media festival (Santa Fe, NM)

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

June 22 - July 8, 2012

• Opening reception: June 22, 2012, 6pm to midnight
• http://www.currentsnewmedia.org/currents2012.html
  

(from the press release)

currents 2012, an annual citywide event, will feature the latest developments in the New Media arts by over 70 artists from throughout the United States and around the world and will include single channel video, interactive video installations, multimedia performances, experimental and interactive documentary, video sculpture, art-games and web-art projects. The exhibitions offer an immersive environment of light, sound and image.

In addition to indoor exhibits, currents 2012 will feature outdoor video projections panel discussions and workshops that focus on the role of New Media Technologies in the arts and in addressing current social and environmental issues.

A major focus of currents is community and regional school outreach. Student video work from local high-school students will be featured alongside the work of established and emerging artists. Also offered is an internship program involving students from Santa Fe colleges, Denver University and the University of North Texas and other cultural, arts and educational organizations from New Mexico, Texas and Colorado.

All exhibits and venues are free and open to the public at:

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
555 Camino De La Familia (Railyard district)
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Other venues and partners include The Center for Contemporary Arts, The Institute of American Indian Arts, The Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Axle Contemporary, the Santa Fe Railyard and other independent galleries and exhibition spaces.

 

Kate Petley and Rusty Scruby at Turner Carroll Gallery

Published on June 11, 2012

Construct: Kate Petley and Rusty Scruby

Turner Carroll Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)

June 15 - July 21, 2012

• Artists reception: Friday June 15 from 5-7pm
• Plus Gallery artist Kate Petley's Santa Fe gallery
  

Turner Carroll Gallery is excited to present a group exhibition featuring works by Kate Petley and Rusty Scruby. Kate and Rusty's work share a strong interest in color as well as in depicting the environments that surround us.

Kate is a Colorado-based artist who creates enigmatic abstractions- she paints on industrial film and suspends these layers amid a pool of acrylic resin, mounted on aluminum. The results are mysterious forms, which evoke memories of various environments and reflections of nature. The subtlety of the foggy imagery is contrasted with the punchy colors that accent the work.

Kate's work resides in numerous public and private collections, including The Nicolaysen Museum in Casper, Wyoming.

Rusty Scruby, working from Texas, creates beautiful wall pieces as well as sculpture, which are woven together. Photographic reproductions are cut up into various shapes and woven together, resulting in a pixilated plane. Aspects of the photograph are repeated over and over, making the viewer appreciate the subtleties of the image. Everyday objects such as playing cards or a milk carton receive special attention when broken down and rebuilt. Rusty's work has a very mathematical precision to it, while revealing beautiful glimpses. His work calls on the viewer to use her vision in a more engaging way.

In 2010, Rusty received a grant from the NEA to fund an installation called "Playing in the Sand." His work is in such well known collections as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont and the Microsoft Corporation's collection in Redmond, Washington to name but a few.

Turner Carroll Gallery
725 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.986.9800
http://turnercarrollgallery.com